Davis jumpsuit, but his is a mind dedicated to finding performance and, as evidenced by that high-speed jaunt among
the construction cranes, having fun.

AS TOLD TO DUSTIN HOFFMAN

Regardless of how old you are, there’s a good chancethat at some point in life you’ve seen the movie TheGraduate. If not, you may at least have heard reference toperhaps one of the most oft-repeated lines from the movie,when Mr. McGuire takes a young Dustin Hoffman outside bythe pool and tells him the one word he needs toknow to prepare for the future: “Plastics.”It was during a race in 1969 when a brokenaluminum fender on his motorcycle (and the result-ing face full of mud) gave Preston the idea makingfenders out of plastic. Preston Petty the off-roadrider then became Preston Petty the industry. Hisinvention of the plastic fender took the sport bystorm, and the entire off-road motorcycle industry wasnever the same.